Word: seaport
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...parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...
Archangel. Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who recently headed a T.U.C. delegation to Russia, said last week that he had seen Hurricanes being landed at the White Seaport of Archangel "hand over fist." But he said that ice was already forming in the harbor. The Russians have assured Britain and the U.S. that Archangel's two new icebreakers can keep this route clear. For the time being it is the best and quickest...
...heard no more, expected never to hear. One new Catalina was charged off as "lost on ferry." Six hours later the boat, with its truncated wing raffish as an empty tooth socket, turned up at a United Kingdom seaport, lurched to a landing. Somehow its pilots had straightened it out, just off the water, flown it in-with no banking controls. It was another incredible episode in the saga of the Catalina, which the U.S. Navy calls...
Odessa, Pearl of the Black Sea, historic Russian seaport and No. 3 industrial center in the Ukraine, was unimpressed. It was bombarded by the French after the Bolshevist Revolution of 1917. The city was built almost entirely of stone; during the famine of 1921-23 the inhabitants razed wooden buildings for fuel. Odessa's citizens tore up the ultimatum, settled down for a siege...
...town a horrible mass of red, heaping ruins whose flames could be seen reflecting in clouds of smoke above the moutains for miles away. Many survivors took their carts, piled high with such household goods as could be saved, and crowded the roads all night long to the northern seaport town of Bilbao. But many, unable to get away, stayed round the burning town, lying on mattresses or searching for children and other relatives...